I guarantee you, if you work on making some of the content that you already have more in-depth and exhilarating, that will please fans much more than leaving some of their favorite characteristics behind in favor of new stuff that will only be around briefly. In short, Game Freak, if your goal is to keep content new and exciting, that would be better achieved by adding new and exciting features to ones that exist already rather than cycling through a whole host of different gameplay features just to abandon them. Considering all the directions Game Freak could go with the battle frontier and rotation and triple battles, for example, I don’t think it would have been too difficult for these to have stuck around without making the gameplay stale, as the company claims it wants to avoid.

Not to do the exact same thing every time but have a new twist on something, that keeps people surprised and enjoying the new style of gameplay.”Īny of these features could have been carried over and built upon in the newer games, but instead, they’re distant (or not so distant) memories. According to Nintendo Everything, when Pokemon Sword and Shield director Shigeru Ohmori, Metro was asking about whether or not Dynamaxing was going to return after Sword and Shield, he said, “At Game Freak, it really just comes from our desire to surprise the players with new gameplay. Dynamaxing was introduced with Pokemon Sword and Shield, but don’t get too attached to it because it probably won't stick around either. It seems to me that the bigger problem Game Freak has is introducing cool new features and then leaving them in the dust afterward instead of actually developing the content more and adding to it as games continue to get released. Crystal shard dust can be made by using a pestle.

Divine potions provide the same level of stat boosts as the base potion they are made from, but stay boosted to their maximum for 5 minutes instead of the boost reducing by one level per minute as normal potions do.

Related: If Pokemon Were Real, This Is What The World Would Actually Look Likeīut honestly, this is about more than just a random list of stuff that Game Freak has refused to pick up on, because Game Freak has actually introduced a lot of new and fun concepts over generations of games… only to dump them shortly after. Crystal dust is a Herblore tertiary ingredient used for creating divine potions.

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